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The Muppets star in Pulp Fiction. If they made it, I’d pay to watch it.
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US foreign aid director Randall Tobias resigns once evidence comes out that he patronized call girls. Given the policy of not funding programs that work with prostitutes, this is really the depths of hypocracy.
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Wolfowitz looks for a bodyguard to protect him from confrontation and from “embarrasment” as he interacts with his staff within the Bank
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Poll ranks US as most unfriendly destination for tourists by 2:1 margin. “70 per cent of respondents said they feared US officials more than terrorists or criminals.” Tourism is another victim of Fortress America response to 9/11
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Business partnership designed to revive American tourism by encouraging US citizens and governments to act as public diplomats to tourists to the US
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Former UNDP head, deputy UN head Mark Malloch Brown takes positions as vice-chairman of Soros’s hedge fund, and vice chairman of Open Society Institute
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Excellent exploration of security concerns of ranchers living on the Arizona/Mexico border
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Ethiopia blocks access to a large set of weblogs, ONI confirms the block
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Almost every aspect of the Nigerian elections were flawed, but at least there was no systemic internet blocking, according to the ONI
No state-sponsored Internet tampering during the Nigerian 2007 elections? That’s about the ONLY thing that the ruling party didn’t fix in these elections. Perhaps the following two paragraphs from the ONI blog post explains the reason why there wasn’t much evidence of filtering and total Internet shutdowns:
Nevertheless, the elections appear to have been free from Internet-related attacks and website blocking. According to local statistics from 2006, only 1.1% of Nigerians have access to the Internet. As the Internet becomes a more important source of political information, many states around the world have begun to filter the Internet more extensively. The absence of tampering with the Internet during this election cycle does not mean that the network in Nigeria will remain free of censorship.
“When very few people have Internet access, the state has few reasons to worry about monitoring or censorship. It’s when the Internet begins to serve some of the roles of mass media that governments can perceive and respond to a threat,†said Jonathan Zittrain, an ONI principal investigator and professor of internet governance at Oxford University.
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